Button



H. WEXEL.

Button.

him-225,959 Patented Mar. 30, 1880.

WITNESSES:

INV'EN-TORI NITED STATES Erica.

ATENT BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,959, dated March 30, 1880.

Application filed December 31, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY WEXEL, of Attleborough, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference to that class of buttonsiu which the shoe can be readily separated from the button.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the button, by which a raised surface is formed, on which two pushers provided with stops slide, and in a cap arranged to secure the pushers, and also the springs by which the same are forced apart, with a rigid post and a tubular shank secured to the shoe, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a view of the inside of the button, showing the cap and the two pushers with the spring. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the button, sh owing theraised surface on which the pushers slide, the pushers, the cap, and their relations to the button and shoe. Fig. 3 is a view of the two pushers provided with the stops.

In the drawings, a is the disk forming the button; I), the shoe, which is provided with the tubular shank c, the lower end of which has a projecting rim. d is a raised surface formed on the inner face of the button-disk. The center of this raised surface has a circular cavity, in which the post 6 is secured. The cavity is large enough to receive the end of the tubular shank c and allow the projecting rim to pass below the raised surface d.

ff are two pushers, the plates of which are provided with the recesses g g and central semicircular recesses, h h, which surround the tubular shank and hold the same by passing over the projecting rim.

i i are two holes, into which the end of the spring-wire 7c passes. The spring keeps the pusher in the position shown in Fig. 3.

l is the cap. This cap is bent down at right angle, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and enters the recesses g g of the pusher-slides, thus ret-aining them in place, and also forming stops limiting the motion of the pushers. A projection of the cap 1 at m extends over the spring is and holds the same in place.

To bring the pusher-bars in a straight line and to hold the shank more firmly, the pusher-plates are each provided with the projections it, (clearly shown in Fig. 8,) and these projections also form stops, by which the movement of thepusher-slides is limited.

The construction of this improved button is simple. The pushers are both alike and made with the same stamp. They are therefore interchangeable. Each pusher is limited in its motion in both directions by stops, so that when both are pressed in the shoe is released, and it cannot be released until they are both pushed in. The pushers move easily, but are firmly held, by means of the cap Z, from spreading. A strong, cheap, and reliable button is thus secured, in which the shoe may be readily detached.

I am aware that detachable buttons have been made before my invention thereof and I am also aware that such separable buttons were made with one or two pushers, by means of which the shoe could be separated from the button, and my invention only relates to the improvements in the construction of such buttons as hereinbefore set forth.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a detachable button, the combination of the button-disk (1, provided with the raised surface (I, the pushers f f, provided with the recesses g and h and projections n, the spring 70, and the cap 1, arranged to secure and protect the pushers and spring of the shoe 1), provided with the tubular shank 0, arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose described.

HENRY WEXEL.

Witnesses:

JOHN G. OUMMINGs, J osnrn S. HUNT. 

